Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:45 am on February 23, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

Bill Ritter has never been confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger … until now:

President Barack Obama took some good-natured ribbing from the audience when he misidentified Gov. Bill Ritter as the “terrific governor of California.” For the record, Ritter is governor of Colorado.

Obama’s gaffe at a fundraiser for Sen. Michael Bennet caused laughter as Obama quickly caught his mistake Thursday. “Colorado, sorry,” he said according to a White House transcript of his speech released Friday. “Listen, East Coast time, it’s past my dinner,” he added.

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Well, the white gov’t in Rhodesia was prosperous despite every type of embargo and international intevention. And the racial fairness and income redistribution programs have led the old “bread basket” of Africa into becoming a beggar which the wealthy US is supporting.

They had honest and smart white and conservative black leaders over there. This is why it took a terror war including the downing of an airliner (and the butchering of survivors) to end the old Rhodesia.

He’s just confused, after all, there are fifty-seven governors he has to keep track of.

OmahaConservative on February 23, 2010 at 8:52 AM

This is a common mistake which needs to be corrected. What he actually said was “I’ve now been in, fifty (insert long pause) seven states and uh uh I think one left to go.” So apparently there are 58 states. But it is confusing because then he says that Alaska and Hawaii he wasn’t allowed to go to so that would mean that there are really 60 states. You can see how confusing that gets so it’s no wonder he was off a little. After all with that many states to keep track of you can see how anyone might misplace a couple of them and that makes all the difference you guys were jumping all over a simple gaffe for nothing. It’s not like anyone could actually remember all of them. Nest thing you’ll expect is for him to memorize all the capitals of all those states…as if anyone could do that.

This situation could have been much worse. He only botched the state Ritter governs. He could have forgotten where he was and apologized to the people of “your great nation” for all the crimes Americans have committed over the years.

One thing you have to keep in mind, while George Bush was blasted constantly for the fact that he MAY have done some cocaine once in the 70′s and was accused of driving while drunk that same decade, Obama has written (or had Billy write FOR him) about how much pot and coke he’s done, so we really have NO IDEA what the actual condition of his brain actually is.